hopsbreath
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Long time lurker, I rarely login but frequent this forum quite a bit for tips and advice.
This years yeast of choice at Portland's Cheers to Belgian Beers homebrew competition is Wyeast 3538 Leuven Pale. Very little user info available online, and with the upcoming competition, I was hoping there would be some HBT users currently using this strain. All anecdotes and tips are appreciated ITT.
Personaly, I brewed a pale with a starter to build up a yeast cake for a tripel I pitched yesterday. The pale was 1.054 and after an insanely quick fermentation (starting temp 66F), finished at 1.012 in 8 days. It may have been even quicker than that but that was when I took my first gravity reading. A week later and it was still sitting at 1.012. Flocculates rock solid too. The tripel (Jamil's) wort I pitched on the cake at 66F was already popping off in under an hour. Seems to be an extremely easy to work with yeast that even a novice like myself can get decent results with.
I'll be updating this thread with info about how the beers actually taste when they're ready for drinking.
This years yeast of choice at Portland's Cheers to Belgian Beers homebrew competition is Wyeast 3538 Leuven Pale. Very little user info available online, and with the upcoming competition, I was hoping there would be some HBT users currently using this strain. All anecdotes and tips are appreciated ITT.
Personaly, I brewed a pale with a starter to build up a yeast cake for a tripel I pitched yesterday. The pale was 1.054 and after an insanely quick fermentation (starting temp 66F), finished at 1.012 in 8 days. It may have been even quicker than that but that was when I took my first gravity reading. A week later and it was still sitting at 1.012. Flocculates rock solid too. The tripel (Jamil's) wort I pitched on the cake at 66F was already popping off in under an hour. Seems to be an extremely easy to work with yeast that even a novice like myself can get decent results with.
I'll be updating this thread with info about how the beers actually taste when they're ready for drinking.